Associating and collecting mechanism.



H. A. W. WOOD. AssolATlNG AND COLLECTING MECHANISM.

H. A. vv.rwooD. ASSOCIATING AND COLLECTING MECHANISNI.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 5, i908. RENEWED FEB. 9 1916.

Patented-Aug. 28, 1917.

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HENRY A. WISE WOOD, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR, '.BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,TO WOOD NEWSPAPER MACHINERY CORPORATION, 'OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA-TION OF VIRGINIA.

Specication of Letters Patent.

ASSOCIATING AND COLLECTING MECHANISM.

Patented Aug. 28, 191W.

l Application led October 5, 1908, Serial No. 456,150. Renewed February9, 1916. Serial No. 77,299.

To all fwwm it may` concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY A. WISE WOOD, a citizen ofthe. UnitedV States,residing at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,have invented a new. and useful Associating and Collecting Mechanism, ofwhich/thefollowing is a specification.

This inventionv relates to a mechanism for associating and collectingthe product of arprinting press or printing presses. The particularobjects thereof are to provide a construction for this purpose wherebythe sheets or web can be stapled while on the run without reducing theirspeed and to provide eficient mechanism for stapling the sametransversely.` The'inventionalsocomprises in this construction areciprocating wire stapling device combined with the collectingmechanism, means for combining .fwith the rest of the mechanism, adevice nism.

Fig. 2 a planiof the stapling mechanism' shown in Fig. l. 1

Fig. 3 isa view similar to Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale showing thestapling mechanism; and

Fig. 4.- is a sectional elevation showing how the staplingA device canbe used in connection with associated webs.

-The wire stapling device is adapted to vpermanently secure or fastenthe assembled Y product, obtained either by associating webs orcollecting sheets.

Referring now to the drawings it will be seen that on av short shaft 22is fulcrumed a vibratory lever or arm 23," which arm is acdescribedtuated to insert' the staples,v as hereafter Extending up from thelefthand portion of this arm 23 are brackets or arms 24, in whichisjournaled a shaft 25.

Also mounted upon the shaft 25, and between the bearings "24 is a malletor striking piece 33, which may be securely fastened to the shaft 25. Onthe end of the vibrating arm on lever 23 is formed a stapling head 34.,v

The striking head 34 has an extending reservoir 42, l in which thestaples may be placed, or to which they may be fed.

One way in which a stapling devicecan be combined with a collectingmechanism, is shown and also means byA which a vcover may be combinedwith the nished product.,

In the drawings, it will be seen that the collecting mechanism` is shownas taking its supply from a printing mechanism; but broadly, anycollecting mechanism may be used, no matter whether the material is leddirectly thereto, as in the form of a web from the press, or whethersheets are fed to the same.

In this specific device 70 represents a web-roll from which the web 71is led.

From the web-roll, the web `passes around a roller 72, then around theimpression cylinder 74, then aroundu the impression cylinder 75. i

Coacting fwith theV impression cylinder 74 is the :first type cylinder'73, and coacting with the second impression cylinder 75 -is the typecylinder 7 6, which type cylinders can be inked by any suitable inkingapparatus asl, which it is not necessary here to lshow or describe atlength.

The type-cylinders preferably are made of a circumference so as toreceive four plates around the same, so that a variety of products canbe produced, as hereafter described. Thus, for example, if the rst andsecond plates of the type cylinders are different, and the third andfourth plates are like the first and second, the first sheet ,may beassociated with the second, and the third with the fourth,pand twodistinct double-'sheet products may be produced, which are duplicates;or if two distinct and unlike products are to be run, all the plateswould differ, and the first complete product would Thus, it will be seenthat a printing cou- 4 ple which has four plates arrangedcircumferentially on the type cylinders is capableA 'of producing aproduct, which may be cut and collected into a number of differentproducts.

From the last impression cylinder 75, the web 71 is led between thecutting cylinders 77 and 79, which aremade one-half the size of the typecylinders, and the upper cylinder 79 of which, has two knives as 80, andthe lower cylinder 77 of which has two recesses 78, whereby the web willbe cut into four sheets for the length of one circumference of eachtype-cylinder.

The knives 80 do not completely sever the sheet from the web, but simplyperforate the web.

From the cuttingcylinders, the webl is carried over guides 82, and isled in between the bite of the continually running tapes 83 and 86. Thetapes 83 are shown as mounted upon the tape pulleys- 84 and 85; andtapes are. mounted upon tape-pulleys e7, e8, se, 90, 91,' 92, 93 and 94,and these tapes are run ata faster speed than the peripheral speed ofthe cutting cylinders.

Arranged beyond the tape pulleys 85 and 87 isthe collecting cylinder 97,vand the nipping or biting cylinder 81, which may be also used as acollecting cylinder in some cases, as hereafter described. v

The web is directed from. the tapes 83 and 86 between these cylinders 81and 97 by means of suitable guides 950.

Arranged in the collecting cylinder 97 are rubber pads 98 whicharearranged preferably opposite, and also through these rubber pads maybe inserted impaling pins 99. Impalin pins as may be also inserted intothe nipping cylinder 81. All the impaling pins are removable, and areused only as desired.

be operated by any of the usual means to strip the. collected productfrom the collecting cylinder; and `a similar set of fingers 96 isarranged to coact with the Acylinder 81, and to strip the product fromtheir cylinder, and deliver the same on to the strippers 100.

It will be seen that the tapes 86`are led around the nipping cylinder 81so that the tapes are clear of the same.

From the cutting cylinders 77 and 79, the web is carried between thetapes `83 and 86, until the end of the same comes in between the nippingcylinder 81 and the collecting cylinder 97, when one of the rubber pads9 8 seizing the end of the web, will tear the sheet pulleys 102 and 103,as shown, and coactingwith the tapes 101 is a set of tapes 104 whichtapes 104 run around tape-pulleys 105, 106, 107, 108 and 109, anddrop-roller 110, which may be mounted in suitable arms 111.

By these tapes, a sheet may be fed to the collecting cylinder to formeither a supplement or a cover, as hereafter described."

The collected product passes from the strippers in the grasp ofthe tapes86 and 104, in through a stapling device.l

A plurality of vstapling devices are used, and instead of being mountedstationary in the frame, are mounted so as torreciprocate backward andforward as by being mounted on a traveling carriage, and all thesestapling devices are operated from the com- I mon shaft 22.

This shaft 22 has on the end thereof an arm 141, which carries a roller136. The arm 141 is -normally kept in itsv depressed position by meansof a compression spring 138, which is arranged between the arm 141 andan arm 137. l

139 and 140 represent two' transverse beams upon which guides 154 arearranged,

and on these guides, the moving carriage hereafter referred t0,fismounted.

The stapling devices are operated from a arm 144, to which is connectedan arm 145, whichhas at the end thereof, a yoke v149, which yoke is keptnormally in its highest position by means of a spring 146.

147 represents a cam mounted on a shaft 148,which the yoke 149 engages,and this cam has a projection 151. Arranged on the yoke is a roller 150,which bears on -the face of the cam. By this means, the arm 143 willCoacting with the collecting cylinder 97 1s a set of stripper lin-gers100, which may be raised at the proper time to operate'the staplingdevices.A

It will be seen that the roller 136 runs on the arm 143, and the cam 147is so timed that when a relatively stationary relation is leffectedbetween the moving stapling devices and the moving assembled product,the

pivoted arm 143, whichhas an extendingl l s on the upper endl thereof,and this radii is fitted in a suitable guide 159.

This rack 159 engages a pinion 160, which is mounted upon a shaft 163,which shaft 163 carries gears 161, which engage racks From the staplingdevice, the sheets are led out between the tapes 104 and 86 on asuitable receiving table 1661 and come against a stop 1662, and then theassembled and stapled product is tucked between the folding rollers 164and 165 by means of the tucker-blade 166, and the once folded, as-

sembled, and stapled product may be del livered as by means of a fly 167on a receiving table 168.

By this device, it will be seen that the collected product, before`specifically described, either with a supplement or cover, can have atransverse row of staples inserted therein, without the assembledproduct being stopped, and that it can be nicely folded upon the line ofthe staples.

Of course, instead of using a single web 71, another web may be led inas 710, and associated with the web 71 at the roller 720, or the web 7 1could be slit, and its portioirOis laterally associated to form amultiple we In this device, in which the staples are insertedtransversely, and in which the product is folded transversely, it willbe seen that the, reservoirs 42 and their plungers are turned at rightangles to the position in which they would be placed if the staples wereinserted in the longitudinal line, and

- for the reason that the staples should be placed'so as to be in linewith the fold.

As before stated, supplements or covers can be fed in betweenthe tapes101 and 104, and the covers or supplements may be fed .from asuitablexfeed-t'able as 130,` and are indicated by the letter C.

A suitable check device as 131 maybe ar` ranged upon al shaft 133, andmay have a nose 132, and vthis device may be so arranged that it willonly be possible to feedl lie cover or supplement in at the proper ime.

rlhe roll 110 mounted 1in the arms 111 may be also arranged, if sodesired, to act as the usual drop-roll, to seize and forwardV the sheetat' the proper time.

` The gearing for the stapling device can be till operated at the propertime depending upon the number of assembled products that come from thecollecting mechanism.

The cylinder 97 is driven turn for turn` with the-cutting cylinders, butis made about one-fourth in diameter larger than the cutting cylinders;and by this means, will have the peripheral speed necessary for pullingthe sheets from the end of the web, and all the tapes are preferably runat the same speed as the peripheral speed of the collect-` ing vcylinderA97. The nipping cylinder l8l is preferably made one-half the diameterof the collecting cylinder 97, and arranged to turn at the sameperipheral speed, or two turns for one of the collecting cylinder 97. j

All these mechanisms and gearings are well understood and known inconnection with web-presses and folding machines, and it isnot/necessary to go into detail to de scribe the same, to givev askilled mechanic a full idea. of this invention; s

Suppose now, that it is desired to run single sheets" through the press.vThen all the impaling-pins are removed from the cylinders 97 and 81,the stapling device is ard` ranged so as to be inoperative, and thesheets lwill be pulled from the web, and given one fold, and delivered,as desired, the fly, of course, being properly timed, and thus .four

jfour-page papers, once folded, will be de livered for each revolutionof the ,type-cylinders, the stapling device, of course, being Y renderedinoperative during this operation.

Suppose now, in the second case, 1t 1s desired to collect two sheets, soas to form an eight-page product, and to deliver for each revolution ofthe type-cylinders two similar eight page products, or two di'erent'eight-page products, depending upon the arrangement cylinders.

In this case, the impaling-pins are inserted in the small collectingcylinder 81, and thefstrippers 96 are set to operate at every secondrevolution of the cylinder 81. Then the first sheet fed in between theof plates used upon the typecylinders 97 and 81 will be carried uparound' the cylinder 81, and the next following sheet will be collectedwith the first sheet, and then the two sheets wil bev stripped from thecylinder 81 by the strippers 96, and will be carried forward between thetapes 86 and' 104 through the stapling mechanism, and will be stapled,and thereafter delivered as desired.

Suppose now, in the third case, it is' desired to collect all foursheets printed by one revolution of the type-cylinders. Then theimpaling pins 99 would be placed in the collecting cylinder 97, and theimpaling pins 95 would be left in the nipping cylinder 81, and thestrippers 96 would be set to operate as hereafter described, and thestrippers 100 vao upon the collecting cylinder 97, and the sucof thetype-cylinders; or, if a half-width A ceeding sheet would be collectedwith the cover is added,`it can produce the above first sheet, and thetwo would then be taken with a two-page cover; or if a full width by theupper cylinder 81, and the fourth cover is added, it can produce theabove sheet would then be connected on the impalwith a double pagecover. ing pins 99, with the second sheet taken 0f course, in feeding inthesupplement upon the cylinder 97, and then when the foror cover of onepage width to constitute ward edges of all four sheets come together,two pages, a wide margin is left, which can therfour-sheet product thuscollected by the he nicely stapled to the remaining sheet or twocollecting cylinders would be directed sheets, andy can be nicelyfolded'. l forward by the strippers lQO and 96 into Thus, it will beseen vthat this device conthe tapes 86 and 104. stitutes an i'mprovedcollecting mechanism, 80

. From the strippers 100, the collected prodmeans for continuouslymoving the 'assemuct will be carried on, stapled, folded and bledproduct, and a stapling device adapted delivered. y to insert staples topermanently bind the v By this operation, it will be seen that acollected product together, while the same sixteen-page paper will beformed, bound is moving, so as to give a transverse line of together anddelivered once folded for each staples, and of afolder adapted to givethe revolution of the type-cylinders. collected and bound product afold' on the Thus, by the printing and collecting and line of thestaples. This will give a pressv stapling mechanism before described, Ican which is adapte-d for .a great lvarietyt of produce either singlesheet, collected double pamphlet and nice work. 90- sheet or collectedquadruple sheet products. In the `device which I have just described, Insome cases, it is desired to add a cover it will be seen that themomentarystationor a supplement to these products, and this v aryrelation between the stapling device and can be nicely done byjfeedingeither vthe the assembled product is eliected by moving. cover orlsupplement from the feed-board C, the stapling device backward andforward, 95 the stop 132 and the drop-roll 110 being and soproportioning the parts that at one timed so as to lead the supplementor cover time the stapling device will move in unison in at the propertime. with the assembled'product, and when this v In the first case, ifit is desired to lay stationary relation Between the' moving ascovers onthe single sheet product, two covsembled product and the moving staplingers will be fed in for each revolution of the device is thus effected,inserting the staple collecting cylinder 97, the impalingpins 99 orstaples. being used in this case, and will be carried The associatedwebs can be stapled and up by the impaling pins 99 and collectedfastened togetherA while they are on the run under the single sheets. by'using the moving stapling device and 105 From the collecting cylinder,the cover this construction is shown inFig. 4, the and single sheet willbe stapled, folded and parts otherwise being the same as beforededelivered, as before described. scribed, and thismoving staplingdevice v When it is desired to put a cover on the simply being placedinthe line of the assoeight-page product, only one cover is fed ciatedwebs that are to form the pamphlet, 1-10 in for each. revolution of thecollecting between the rollers 189 and 175. cylinder 97, and when it isdesired to put a Thus the associated webs can be stapled cover upon thesixteen page (collected prodwhile theyare'on the run. uct, one `cover isfed in for each two revo- In this last device the staples will be in-.lutions of the collecting cylinder. serted in a transverse line,.and itis preered as a supplement,

would be timed to operate once for each two revolutions of the cylinder97.

Then the iirst two sheets would be laid Of course, this fed-in sheet,instead of being considered as a cover, can be considand under someconditions, can be used as an insert.

This supplement'or cover may, of course,

beya full widthv or a half width sheet, so that a half cover can beadded or only `a one y page supplement. By this means,

comparatively simple mechanisms, and-that by momentarily stopping thecollected product one orv more times the same can be perit will be seenthat a great .variety of products can be obtained, with ply either fourfour-page papers, two eightpage papers, either similar or different, orone sixteen page paper for each'revolution ferred with this device touse a transverse folder to act on the product after the same has beencut oif, and this may consist o f a pair of the usual ordinarytransverse cutting and folding devices as 602 and (03. P

From the last impression cylinder, the cover e is led .around a roll 214to a roll 215;

and interposed` between the rollers 214' and 215 is a asting device,which may consist of a suita le paste-box 210, which has a suitablepasting roller 211, which deposits paste upon the lining-roller 212;between which rollers 212 and 213, theweb e is led.

' manently and nicely'bound together.

It is preferred in using this arrangement n to provide thepasting-roller 212 with a/lo/ Thus, this press can be arranged tosupknife so as to deposit a transverse line of paste on the cover e1.

Thus, it will be seen, that sheets can be collected as desired from oneWeb, and stapled and folded While on the run; that webs slit from oneweb, or produced from two or more machines can be associated, and

stapled and folded While on the run; that covers or supplements can beinserted With the collected sheets, the said covers or supplements beingnot necessarily in dimensions an equal division of the circumference ofthe type-cylinders; and they can be bound with the product; .and thatall the pages of a pamphlet can be associated in Web, and stapled, andthereafter a, cover can be pasted on the stapled product. The cover Webcan be Afed byl the main machine, or can be the product of another andseparate press.

The details of the invention herein described may be greatly varied -bya skilled mechanic without departing from the scope of my invention asexpressed in the claims.

Having thus'fully described this invention, what I do claim is l. Thecombination with an assembling mechanism, of a stapling mechanism, meansfor feeding the assembled product past the stapling mechanism, and acarriage upon which the stapling mechanism is mounted, said carriagehaving a rack, and a continuously rotating shaft having means forreciprocating said rack and carriage parallel to the line of motion ofsaid product.

2. The combination with an assembling mechanism, of a stapling mechanismcomprising a reciprocable carriage, a shaft journaled thereon, an armfulcrumed on said shaft, a staple reservoir carried by said arm, andmeans whereby when the carriage moves with the assembled product, thestapling mechanism will be actuated.

3. The combination With an assembling mechanism, of a stapling mechanismcom prising a recprocable member, a shaft journaled thereon, an armfulcrumed on the shaft, a staple reservoir carried by the arm,

a second shaft journaled on the arm, means carried by the second shaftfor driving the staples, means for actuating` said arm and stapledriving means when the stapling mechanism reaches a certain point, andlmeans for feedin the assembled product by the stapling mec anism andparallel vvith the direction of motion thereof.

4. The combination With an assembling mechanism, of a stapling mechanismcomprising a staple reservoir and means for' Witnesses.`

f I-I. A. WISE WOOD. \Witnesses:

MARY E. MGCODDEN, ANNIE 'Ba WALTERS.

